Farewell (for now) Festival
Saturday, April 23rd
12:00 PM “Lunch Poems” curated by Jesse Malmed
Lunch Poems, named after three of your favorite things, is a phantasmagorasbord of some of our favorite beautiful blasts. To nourish, to delight, to captivate, to be amidst and to share in the shattering. Spilled and spelled, the avenoodles are the alleyways ~ “Mothers of America/let your kids go to the movies!”
Marianna Milhorat, Uncle Joe, Landscape Rapper, 2min
Tommy Heffron, Like This/Like That, 3min
Cameron Gibson, Hot Stuff, 3min
Blair Bogin, Clean Your Room / Firework Boy / Your Apartment, 3min
Emily Kuehn, The Greatest Show on Earth, 2min
Lori Felker, ZWISCHEN, 2.5min
Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Local Ads from Faraway Places, 5min
Stephanie Barber, 3 Peonies, 3min
Joshua Gen Solondz, Burning Star, 4min
Lilli Carré, Tap Water, 4.5min
Cameron Granger, How To Disappear Completely, 2min
Selina Trepp, WHADOIDO, 2min
Nellie Kluz, DD, 3min
Amir George, The Encompassed Wisdom of the Inevitable Manifestation, 1.5min
Sky Hopinka, When You're Lost in the Rain, 5min
Steve Reinke, Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp), 4min
Alee Peoples, Them Oracles, 7.5min
eric fleischauer, REDUXES: SEE YOU ON THE FLIPSIDE, 3min
2:00 PM Therapy Sessions with Seth Vanek
A live therapy session with Nightingale Programmers moderated by former Nightingale roommate, musician, and performer Seth Vanek.
3:00 PM “Young Blood” curated by Zach Hutchinson
A screening of short works made by current students.
B8by by Robin Beasley / 2:43
In real Life by Mason / 2:00
2015 by Paulita Martinez / 1:38
Knowledge is Power by Marla Chinbat / 0:15
Sea slug Interview by Rachel Bowman / 5:05
Stuffed by Nicole Lyu / 1:03
6:00 PM The Works of Paige Taul
The film and video works of Chicago-based artist Paige Taul. Paige Taul (b.1996) is an Oakland, CA native who received her BA in Studio Art with a concentration in Cinematography from the University of Virginia and her MFA in Moving Image from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work engages with and challenges assumptions of black cultural expression and notions of belonging through experimental cinematography. As a part of her filmmaking practice, she tests the boundaries of identity and self-identification through autoethnography to approach notions of racial authenticity in veins such as religion, style, language, and other black community-based experiences. Paige’s work has been exhibited at venues including UnionDocs, CROSSROADS at SFMOMA, BlackStar Film Festival, and the Virginia Film Festival.
In the face of god, 4 min
Teef, 8 min
The Promise, 6 min
Reid's Records, 4 min
What's Good Bruce?, 4 min
DiviNation, 10 min
Too Small to be a Bear, 5 min
8:00 PM “Dada’s Daughter” by Sara Sowell
An expanded cinema performance by Milwaukee-based artist Sara Sowell. Sara Sowell is a film editor and multidisciplinary artist working within the intersections of moving image, painting, sculpture, and sound. Born in Houston, Texas, she studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Cinematic Arts. She is currently teaching introductory film courses and building kinetic light-sculptures.
9:30 PM Advanced Screening of “Bros Before” Written and Directed by Henry Hanson
Billy and Elijah are two trans bros who just happen to enjoy jerking off together - in a straight way. But when Billy starts dating a woman, Elijah must come to terms with his feelings for Billy and his own burgeoning homosexuality.
10:31 PM “Halloween in April, I Guess” curated by Emily Eddy
A screening of spooktacular films and videos. Thank you to the Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and The Film-Makers' Cooperative for providing films and videos for this event.
George Kuchar, Terror By Twilight, 6:00, 1988, Video
Peggy Ahwesh, The Scary Movie, 7:00, 1993, 16mm
Cecelia Condit, Beneath the Skin, 12:00, 1981
Mark Oates, Tom Rubnitz, Psykho III The Musical, 24:00, 1985
11:11 PM Late Night Shorts curated by Aaron Walker
Chris Collins, Lame Dream Dispatch, 6min, 2016
Erin Hayden, Flower-o'-the-moon, 11min, 2020
Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, The Fine Arts, 4min, 2001
Sonnenzimmer with Beautifulish, #FAD6A5, 4min, 2021
LJ Frezza, The Truth, 6min, 2017
Barry Doupé, Distracted Blueberry (excerpt), 3:38, 2019
Jimmy Schaus, Dance of the Black Racer, 5min, 2020
Sara Magenheimer, Chimes at Noon / Balsamic Moon, 15min, 2022
Jesse Malmed, Losing It (for Cellular Cinema), 2min, 2022
Sunday, April 24th
1:00 PM Programmers Meet Up
A casual meet up for film programmers. All are welcome!
3:00 PM “In Praise of Lost Tomorrows: Short Films by Benjamin Balcom” Programmed by Drew Durepos
A longtime friend of the Nightingale and Microlights Microcinema (MKE) co-founder, Benjamin Balcom will share a selection of his short films from 2016-2022, filmic speculations that trace utopian longing in the dust of the ordinary.
In a Circle Around Me, The Sequence of years, 8min
Speculations, 16min
Garden City Beautiful, 12min
News from Nowhere, 8min
Looking Backward, 10min
Growing Up Absurd, 10min
5:00 PM “How to Pack in a Hurry” curated by Christy LeMaster
A program of 16mm short films by Stephanie Barber, Jodie Mack, and Gary Beydler, curated by Nightingale Cinema’s Founding Director, Christy LeMaster.
6:00 PM Live Performance by AJ McClenon preceded by video work by Amina Ross
A.J. McClenon is a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in Washington, DC and currently residing in Chicago. A.J. holds a Masters in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2014) and a Bachelor of Arts with a minor in creative writing from the University of Maryland College Park.
Amina Ross is an artist, educator and life-long learner based in Brooklyn, New York. Amina makes videos, sculptures, sounds, and situations that consider feeling, body-knowledge, and intimacy as technologies of survival for black, queer, trans and femme people. Amina has presented work in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, London, Havana, Rotterdam, and The Hague. Amina learned about facilitation, world-building and ritual through their familial practice of Lucumí tradition (Santeria), their work in queer art collectives 3rd Language and F4F and through their time with the black solidarity economics working group Cooperation for Liberation. Amina worked as an educator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and was a lecturer at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Amina received their BFA from SAIC and their MFA from the Yale School of Art.
7:00 PM “less-ness-ness-less” curated by Jesse Malmed
Lightninging, like the how now and when of the cosmos and the ground connect, if for a ‽, like how every film is about time travel, like how the land holds secrets, like how we see sound and hear the difference, like how the residues of memory linger (do you have to? yes, you have to!) cowering before images like afterimages. Let’s hope this isn’t the last time that I get to remind you that the collective noun for nightingales is a watch. A watch of nightingales. Nightining.
Deborah Stratman, How Among the Frozen Words, 1min
Nazlı Dinçel, Shape of a Surface, 9min
Jesse McLean, The Eternal Quarter Inch, 9min
Ben Russell, BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER THREE, 12min
Zachary Epcar, Life After Love, 8min
Fern Silva, Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder, 10.5
Mary Helena Clark, Orpheus (outtakes), 9min
Mike Gibisser, Blue Loop, July, 5min
Michael Robinson, All Through the Night, 4min
Deborah Stratman, It Will Die Out in the Mind, 4min
8:08 PM Anthems To Go Out On curated by Emily Eddy
A short program of bangers celebrating Nightingale loves and lovers throughout the years curated by Nightingale Director Emily Eddy.
Soda_Jerk, The Was, 14:00, 2016, Video
Grace Mitchell, Magic Bath, 9:00, 2018, Video
Sally Lawton, Patrick Worth Dying For, 2:00, 2017, Video
Carolyn Faber, Shorty’s Last Stand, 7:21, 2013, Video
JB Mabe, Addy Choo, 3:00, 2013, 16mm
Steve Reinke, Welcome to David Wojnarowicz Week, 14:20, 2016, Video
Ian Curry, Fantasy on the Bun, 7:30, 2014, 16mm x 2